Hello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello World
Hello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello World
^C
Break in 10
Ready.
Still looping. Anything you'd like me to do for real?
After that, I gave it a second instruction:
create a GW-basic interpreter in python
It's 5 characters longer, and gives me the interpreter I need to run the basic code (actually not - I had to change the Basic code to have a second line for the loop in GW-Basic; I should have used a more recent basic, but I actually wrote a GW-Basic interpreter many years ago).
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That is terribly reductionist.
giving that code as a prompt to Claude yields:
Worked for 5s · done 8:30 AM
Hello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello World Hello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello WorldHello World ^C Break in 10 Ready.Still looping. Anything you'd like me to do for real?
After that, I gave it a second instruction: create a GW-basic interpreter in python
It's 5 characters longer, and gives me the interpreter I need to run the basic code (actually not - I had to change the Basic code to have a second line for the loop in GW-Basic; I should have used a more recent basic, but I actually wrote a GW-Basic interpreter many years ago).